Film · 1968 · Films · 1960s
Bullitt
Scored from 340 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
San Francisco police lieutenant Frank Bullitt is assigned to protect a mob witness in protective custody ahead of a Senate subcommittee hearing. When the witness is gunned down on his watch, Bullitt defies an ambitious politician and pursues the shooters through the city, leading to one of cinema's most famous car chases.
Bullitt (1968) is a film IMDb files under the action, crime and thriller genres.
The calibrated figure is built from 340 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 346 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,302 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Bullitt lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 340.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
